[ 2016-10-21 ]

Disqualification suit: Court orders PPP, EC to file statement of case
The High court presided over by Justice Eric
Kyei-Baffour has warned lawyers of both the
Electoral Commission and Progressive People's
Party to file their statements of case
simultaneously in the suit seeking judicial review
of the disqualification of the PPP's presidential
candidate from the December polls.

The court says it will at all times be guided by
the timeline as far as election 2016 is concerned.
As a result, the court has ordered that the filing
be done by Monday October 24, and the parties will
return to court the following day to make viva
voce (oral submission) after which a date will be
set for the judgement of the court.

The founder and leader of the Progressive
People’s Party, Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom has stated
that he would not give up easily following his
disqualification from the presidential race in the
upcoming December polls.

The party thus sued the EC at the High Court
seeking an order of prohibition to restrain the EC
from proceeding with balloting for position of
presidential candidates for the December 7,
elections.

It also sought for”…a further order directed
against the 1st Respondent in her capacity as
Returning Officer for Presidential elections to
grant the Applicant the opportunity to amend and
alter the one anomaly found in his nomination
papers as well as accept his nomination papers as
amended or altered to enable him contest as a
Presidential Candidate for the 7th December 2016
elections.”

“And for such order or further as to this
Honourable Court may deem fit,” the PPP’s suit
added.

Dr Nduom and 11 others were disqualified from the
contest by the EC.

Some of the reasons outlined by the EC that led to
the disqualification of the aspirants are filing
anomalies including fraudulent signatures, absence
of a required number of signatures and improper
filling of nomination forms.

Source - Starrfm

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